Microeconomics

Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers.

Analysis of both the principles and techniques of public intervention in a global economy.

A novel and optimistic account of the possibility of a more just economy.

Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older.

In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed.

In high power, high voltage electronics systems, a strategy to manage short timescale energy imbalances is fundamental to the system reliability.

Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity.

Same-sex marriage is now legal in twenty-nine countries and the subject of continued debate around the world.

First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

This book sets out the foundations of post-Keynesian price theory.

Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794 - 1860

Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms.

This book analyzes the performance of the economy and the economic policy actions of the Federal Reserve, the president, and the Congress in the twelve months preceding each of the eleven recession the United States has endured since the end of World War II.

Peter M.

Regional Analysis, Volume I: Economic Systems explores the interconnectedness of economic and social systems as they exist and develop in territorial-environmental systems.

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives.

This book uses surveys to bridge the gap between studies into European economics and policymaking in Europe.

Proposes a new comprehensive theory about how expectations are formed and how they shape the macro economy.

Appropriate laws and regulations are essential tools to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources.

A collection of essays by a number of internationally-known economists, this book is essential reading for those interested in development policy in the Third World.

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Global interest in technology-based growth politics is growing as technology becomes an increasingly important factor in economic competitiveness.

Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as well as to adjust tax brackets.

This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis.

Whether they should or not, few economists do in fact refrain from making pronouncements on public policy, although the state of the economy (both here and elsewhere) suggests that either the advice given is bad or, if good, that it is ignored .

This book describes the profound structural change in Japan's agriculture from its politically marginalized, economically fragmented, traditional labour-intensive postwar mode of production to its current dual modern shape of a highly capitalized, politically organized and protected sector.

This collection of papers is an outgrowth of the "e;Game Practice I"e; th th conference held in Genoa from 28 to 30 June 1998.

The papers in this volume present a quite critical assessment of contingent valuation (CV).

This book reviews the basic process of China's fourteen five-year plans with systematic theoretical overview and rich historical data and moves on to discuss the theoretical logic of plan-based state governance.

The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance.

This book analyses reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing.

How do we measure happiness?

In this original and thought-provoking book, Relli Shechter examines the emergence of 'modern' markets in the complex social environment of the Middle East.

This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries.

This book provides an in-depth look at the primary foundations of economics explored through the lens of the Pawnee Department of Parks and Recreation.

In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector-including international trade in services-has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations.

Enterprise and entrepreneurship is of strong interest to policy-makers because new and small firms can be a key contributor to job and wealth creation.

Over the past thirty years, urban economic theory has been one of the most active areas of urban and regional economic research.

This is an extract from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today.

This text enables a thorough and coherent understanding of the core concepts and key topics of industrial organisation using a firmly real-world and case-centric approach.

The Pacific region is in the final stage of the demographic transition with declining fertility and expanding life expectancy, where significant changes in population size and age distribution, i.